(Spreech Dr. Rainer Stollmann on the occasion of the International Congress "Quality on Television" 28.-30.11.2002, Athen)

What is quality in television, and how can we achieve it?

1. High-quality television is intimately linked to the enduring interests of viewers

People expect quality from the things they have been engaged with over a longer period of time, from the things they need on a daily basis. A plumber would refuse to work with a cheap wrench that might be good enough for a layman's occasional use. A translator uses an encyclopaedic dictionary, not a tourist's phrase book. Businessmen and politicians wear finest suits, whereas those who need a suit for funerals and weddings only will be satisfied with cheaper ware. The criteria for quality are therefore durability and reliability. Quality is intimately linked to people's enduring interests, and these are rooted at the same time in everyday life, unlike extraordinary and special interests. Television that addresses or indeed binds itself to people's long-term interests is what is meant by quality television ...complete script

(Spreech Dr. Christian Schulte on the occasion of the International Congress "Quality on Television" 28.-30.11.2002, Athen)

"Authors' Television" - The DCTP cultural magazines

Rainer Stollmann already mentioned the project "authors' television". Such "authors' television" is intended to create special windows in television, addressing long-term viewer interests and offering forms of television which counteract the "industrialization of consciousness" inherent in commercial television. In "authors' television" the reflective and the expressive potential of the medium is meant to be expanded in order to stimulate attention and curiosity of the viewers. "Authors' television" is working against the viewers' habitual attitude of mere consumership. Convinced that large parts of reality (as well as large parts of television programming) are constituted of an executive, which is faced more or less helplessly by the individual, authors' television tries to produce more complex forms of awareness, so-called "awareness horizons". This would be true program quality in the sense of authors' television and this is what the DCTP project of Alexander Kluge - film director, author, and lawyer - is working towards ...complete script